Pet peeve - it's free rein, not free reign. It's a horse riding metaphor.

Bah, well I have been using that incorrectly my entire life. A monarchy/ruler metaphor seems just as logical.

	▲	woollysammoth 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		There's a term "eggcorns" for these logical misinterpretations - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggcorn